IT has been months since I last posted my last blog as times were tough due to my husband's loss of a good-paying job (end of contract), Employment Insurance runaround, my pregnancy and caring for my two sons under 4 years, floodings in almost all parts of Saskatchewan (yes, we did get basement flooding in the current rental home, which is why we are moving into another rental home pretty quick), hard decisions on whether to move to another part of the province, c-section and birth of my third son, and then a close member of the family recently diagnosed with breast cancer. It may be good and bad times, but we as a family pulled through, but we can make it through if we stay positive through challenging times.
The last few months were basically checking online garage sales on FaceBook, even checking out good deals and bargains on Kijiji, www.usedeverywhere.com, and whatever we have access to. My family and I did go to a few garage sales in the city, but there was nothing interesting we find, except that we needed alot of things for the baby, from recieving blankets in great condition, to a baby swing barely used, to finding a set of cloth diapers NEVER USED AT ALL, just brand new. I do see alot of parents go spend big bucks on baby needs, but my husband and I rather spend a fraction of the costs by checking out online garage sales for baby clothes and toys in great shape. Even my mom could find cool kids' clothing at 75% off at the local store in my hometown and I never stopped her from finding them (clothes are ALWAYS worn and passed down from my 4-yr-old to my almost 2-yr-old to my almost 2-month-old). But pretty soon, once my youngest grows out of onesies and sleepers (still in awesome shape and no set-in stains), they may be going on sale for cheap either online or this spring at the multi-family community garage sales. I will keep a few things as keepsakes, but for now, I NEED to find a baby keepsake box for my infant son :) .
When my husband's contract position was finished, he was asked to help out around the village for income for a short time, from collecting garbage, to trimming bushes and cutting grass. At garbage collection days, he and his foreman would find what we call it treasures rather than junk. The guys would find alot of garden hanging baskets by garbage cans, still in great shape, and my husband would bring them home to me, so I used them to plant flowers. At one home, the foreman would be shaking his head when he and my husband found a battered box and inside it was an artificial Christmas tree in PERFECT shape. My husband brought it home, and I set it up to see if there was something wrong with the tree, but after setting it up, there STILL nothing WRONG with the tree. Today, it is in the corner of the living room, all decorated with colored lights, gold bead garlands and lots of ornaments we love. Better than spending $60 to $80 on real trees that I will never know it will end up a waste on investment or not. And I am very impressed that my cats and kittens never paid any attention to the tree at all.
My family and I will continue to check out good deals as usual. And I just can't wait for spring to come when the season of outdoor garage sales starts again. And yes, we have a load of items going up for sale,.....just as soon as my family and I move everything to the new place at a very low, low rental rate, just enough for my husband and I to fill up our closet with new clothes again.
In case I don't post another blog until New Year, I wish you a happy holiday (Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hannukah, Yuletide, etc,....)
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
All around the town,........
Gotta get this blog done as I was too worn out from raking and other yardwork as well as taking care of a 3-yr-old with a bad case of flu :( .
So last weekend on Saturday, the community had a big line up on garage sales and since the weather was soooooooo nice, my husband attached a rope to his mountain bike to pull the boys' red wagon. Think it doesn't sound safe? Don't worry, he rode SLOWLY with the three-year-old riding in the red wagon, as I buckled the 1-yr-old in his new umbrella stroller since I decided to walk to get some exercise. And heh heh, we should have thought of using the Explorer in the end LOL.
As we strolled around town, there was alot of people making frequent stops at every sale they see balloons attached to the residential properties. For some sales we stop at, there was alot more antiques and ornaments than useful items we could put to use. At one sale, the senior lady had a HUGE (I mean HUGE) orange cat and it looked like we can't pick that cat up at all. But it was very friendly and kept our kids entertained while my husband and I looked around. So, at another stop, I noticed there was a lawnmower and I was curious to see the price of it, since we need one so bad to cut the lawn, but the seller was asking for $100, and it was not in our budget at all. The seller even tried to start the lawnmower as a demo, but it didn't start well at all. Parts anyone?
We sure had walked and biked quite a lot for the past 2 and a half hours but it was a lot of fun to check out parts of the community. Even preschoolers and toddlers from families holding the sales are very happy to know that our boys are amongst more kids to play with in the park this coming summer when their parents are going to be taking holiday times to give the kids a break from going to daycare.
As for the rest of the garage sales, there were quite interesting things (beside antiques and ornaments) but others were kinda,....well,......junky? For instance, at one sale, the house and the yard were messy with junk, and it was in a midst of what they call it,"renovation" (in others words, the kitchen window was missing and it was supposed to have a new window but it looked like it didn't happen (?) ), and the lady asked us if we were interested in a hot tub that was hardly used at all (we loved to, but where are we going to put it and will my landlord have time to use it with his girlfriend in case we have to move? LOL) During the strolling, we have noticed that there was a lot of homes being abandoned and vandalized. I even was told by the village administration that some of the abandoned houses were repossessed for tax arrears and they could not track down the property owners that "disappeared from town" and owed taxes. Crazy.
As I mentioned earlier that we could have taken the Explorer, we did come home with a lot of items that my 3-yr-old had no problem rummaging through them while riding the wagon LOL:
-A child's sleeping bag with images of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that our three-yr-old will use for camping.
-a weed eater that didn't work well in the end that my landlord told us to make use of his new weedeater that he hardly used.
-a bag of snack containers that we can make great use of, from putting in small snacks for my husband to take to work as well for our kids to take with them whenever they are hungry.
-a few toy cars and such that the boys can use them outside in the sandbox.
-alot of t-shirts barely worn (very new to us!) with logos mainly of SK Roughriders (100 years old this year for the CFL team!) and the local junior hockey team in which we cheer for.
-a set of Budwieser beer can coolers that my dad will be chuckling about it when my parents visit the next time whenever beer is served COLD.
I absolutely cannot remember how much we spent in total altogether as the very warm weather got our brains too fuzzy on memory, but the good news is, at least we had plenty of cash to keep the gas tank full and stock up more of food until the next pay day :)
Until next time, I have no idea what are the plans for the May Long weekend as the weather news call for rain (and people already had plans to camp this weekend :S ).
(Now if someone have gardening supplies in good shape they don't need anymore, we would like them because Walmart is asking outrageous prices for new supplies :S )
So last weekend on Saturday, the community had a big line up on garage sales and since the weather was soooooooo nice, my husband attached a rope to his mountain bike to pull the boys' red wagon. Think it doesn't sound safe? Don't worry, he rode SLOWLY with the three-year-old riding in the red wagon, as I buckled the 1-yr-old in his new umbrella stroller since I decided to walk to get some exercise. And heh heh, we should have thought of using the Explorer in the end LOL.
As we strolled around town, there was alot of people making frequent stops at every sale they see balloons attached to the residential properties. For some sales we stop at, there was alot more antiques and ornaments than useful items we could put to use. At one sale, the senior lady had a HUGE (I mean HUGE) orange cat and it looked like we can't pick that cat up at all. But it was very friendly and kept our kids entertained while my husband and I looked around. So, at another stop, I noticed there was a lawnmower and I was curious to see the price of it, since we need one so bad to cut the lawn, but the seller was asking for $100, and it was not in our budget at all. The seller even tried to start the lawnmower as a demo, but it didn't start well at all. Parts anyone?
We sure had walked and biked quite a lot for the past 2 and a half hours but it was a lot of fun to check out parts of the community. Even preschoolers and toddlers from families holding the sales are very happy to know that our boys are amongst more kids to play with in the park this coming summer when their parents are going to be taking holiday times to give the kids a break from going to daycare.
As for the rest of the garage sales, there were quite interesting things (beside antiques and ornaments) but others were kinda,....well,......junky? For instance, at one sale, the house and the yard were messy with junk, and it was in a midst of what they call it,"renovation" (in others words, the kitchen window was missing and it was supposed to have a new window but it looked like it didn't happen (?) ), and the lady asked us if we were interested in a hot tub that was hardly used at all (we loved to, but where are we going to put it and will my landlord have time to use it with his girlfriend in case we have to move? LOL) During the strolling, we have noticed that there was a lot of homes being abandoned and vandalized. I even was told by the village administration that some of the abandoned houses were repossessed for tax arrears and they could not track down the property owners that "disappeared from town" and owed taxes. Crazy.
As I mentioned earlier that we could have taken the Explorer, we did come home with a lot of items that my 3-yr-old had no problem rummaging through them while riding the wagon LOL:
-A child's sleeping bag with images of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that our three-yr-old will use for camping.
-a weed eater that didn't work well in the end that my landlord told us to make use of his new weedeater that he hardly used.
-a bag of snack containers that we can make great use of, from putting in small snacks for my husband to take to work as well for our kids to take with them whenever they are hungry.
-a few toy cars and such that the boys can use them outside in the sandbox.
-alot of t-shirts barely worn (very new to us!) with logos mainly of SK Roughriders (100 years old this year for the CFL team!) and the local junior hockey team in which we cheer for.
-a set of Budwieser beer can coolers that my dad will be chuckling about it when my parents visit the next time whenever beer is served COLD.
I absolutely cannot remember how much we spent in total altogether as the very warm weather got our brains too fuzzy on memory, but the good news is, at least we had plenty of cash to keep the gas tank full and stock up more of food until the next pay day :)
Until next time, I have no idea what are the plans for the May Long weekend as the weather news call for rain (and people already had plans to camp this weekend :S ).
(Now if someone have gardening supplies in good shape they don't need anymore, we would like them because Walmart is asking outrageous prices for new supplies :S )
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Wow, a long day,....
Well, yesterday morning, my husband took 140 dollars out for the garage sales as well as the big indoor flea market at the city agriplex. So, before we went to the big indoor flea market, we stopped at two garage sales, and oh goodness, we felt it was a waste of time for sure,......groan. Senior citizen trying to sell off their antique ornaments that some volunteers could have came and buy them as props for community theaters or schools or something like that. So we proceeded to the flea market. There were sure alot of people there, trying to find bargains and deals, and after a good hour, we came out with a few bags and a big box of things we will put them to good use. While at the flea market, we see everything, from toys and movies on VHS and DVDs, to children's and adults' clothing, to rare antique items, to house plants and vegetable plants, to class board games, and oh, you name it all. What I am very thankful is the fact that no one sold expired or damaged children's car seats at all, otherwise I would have vented to the organizers and Transport Canada about it.
After coming out of the flea market with bags and a box full of "stuff", we went to a few more garage sales around the city. The funniest part of going to garage sales is having to stop, unbuckle the kids out, take the umbrella stroller out and buckle in my youngest son, go look around, and when we are done, go back to the vehicle, unbuckle my youngest son, buckle the kids in their carseats, put away the umbrella stroller and then take off. It is such a repetitious task, I should be getting my arms a good amount of exercise. By the time we were done checking out the last garage sale, we were not only exhausted, but the wind and rain started to pick up and sellers were scrambling to save their items from being blown away.
So, we bought:
-two tomato plants (but I still have to start plating the other varieties of tomatoes for our garden ASAP this week)
-french fry cutter, because I am so tired of cutting the potatoes into french fries all the time, I wanna just peel the potatoes and use the cutter and fry-em!
-a sweatshirt and pant outfit for my youngest son, since some of the pants handed down to him from my oldest son has worn out LOL
-a toy Hummer that my oldest son, who's a toy car fan, picked out.
-a classic toy car, a 1964 Mustang, still in box, picked out by my oldest son.
-a dish rack and tray set which I needed so bad. At dollar stores, they sell for 15 dollars and over, and hey, I got it for 3 bucks, still new with label on it.
-two bundles of children's hangers, ten hangers per bundle, for cheap, so I can hang more clothes up instead of bunching the clothes in the drawers.
-a few classic albums on records that my husband like.
-a couple of caps, yes, because my husband collects them :)
-a wallet, still new, because my last wallet lost the zipper tag.
-an old Sunbeam mixer/bowl/stand set. Hey, I still have to save money for a brand new Kitchen Aid set, right?
-A small Panasonic CD/cassette player for the kitchen so I can get back to listening to my favorite CDs again.
-a few collections of movies on DVDs (and I didn't pay attention to what we got, because my husband put them away before I could see the rest of them LOL )
-a V-tech Play Desk in which my oldest son gets to listen to the sounds of alphabets and words.
-8 storybooks to read to the boys at bedtime, plus two teacher's workbooks for preschoolers to learn science and health.
-a WWE board trivia game, never used, but we will test how much we know about the players in the past.
-a hanging basket and a planter's container. Hey, gotta have it for flowers and veggies outside :)
-a set of speakers for the computer, brand new, still in box.
-a motorcycle model, still in box. (Okay, does the packaging still have value?)
And it was less than a hundred dollars (I think,......maybe,......eh,.....)
Next weekend, there is a huge garage sale lineup in the community, and I told my husband that we will have to leave the Explorer home, use the umbrella stroller and the red wagon. That way, I don't have to take my youngest son on and off the umbrella stroller all the time LOL.
Well, I am going to pick out a CD to put in the CD/cassette player to listen to.
After coming out of the flea market with bags and a box full of "stuff", we went to a few more garage sales around the city. The funniest part of going to garage sales is having to stop, unbuckle the kids out, take the umbrella stroller out and buckle in my youngest son, go look around, and when we are done, go back to the vehicle, unbuckle my youngest son, buckle the kids in their carseats, put away the umbrella stroller and then take off. It is such a repetitious task, I should be getting my arms a good amount of exercise. By the time we were done checking out the last garage sale, we were not only exhausted, but the wind and rain started to pick up and sellers were scrambling to save their items from being blown away.
So, we bought:
-two tomato plants (but I still have to start plating the other varieties of tomatoes for our garden ASAP this week)
-french fry cutter, because I am so tired of cutting the potatoes into french fries all the time, I wanna just peel the potatoes and use the cutter and fry-em!
-a sweatshirt and pant outfit for my youngest son, since some of the pants handed down to him from my oldest son has worn out LOL
-a toy Hummer that my oldest son, who's a toy car fan, picked out.
-a classic toy car, a 1964 Mustang, still in box, picked out by my oldest son.
-a dish rack and tray set which I needed so bad. At dollar stores, they sell for 15 dollars and over, and hey, I got it for 3 bucks, still new with label on it.
-two bundles of children's hangers, ten hangers per bundle, for cheap, so I can hang more clothes up instead of bunching the clothes in the drawers.
-a few classic albums on records that my husband like.
-a couple of caps, yes, because my husband collects them :)
-a wallet, still new, because my last wallet lost the zipper tag.
-an old Sunbeam mixer/bowl/stand set. Hey, I still have to save money for a brand new Kitchen Aid set, right?
-A small Panasonic CD/cassette player for the kitchen so I can get back to listening to my favorite CDs again.
-a few collections of movies on DVDs (and I didn't pay attention to what we got, because my husband put them away before I could see the rest of them LOL )
-a V-tech Play Desk in which my oldest son gets to listen to the sounds of alphabets and words.
-8 storybooks to read to the boys at bedtime, plus two teacher's workbooks for preschoolers to learn science and health.
-a WWE board trivia game, never used, but we will test how much we know about the players in the past.
-a hanging basket and a planter's container. Hey, gotta have it for flowers and veggies outside :)
-a set of speakers for the computer, brand new, still in box.
-a motorcycle model, still in box. (Okay, does the packaging still have value?)
And it was less than a hundred dollars (I think,......maybe,......eh,.....)
Next weekend, there is a huge garage sale lineup in the community, and I told my husband that we will have to leave the Explorer home, use the umbrella stroller and the red wagon. That way, I don't have to take my youngest son on and off the umbrella stroller all the time LOL.
Well, I am going to pick out a CD to put in the CD/cassette player to listen to.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Okay, that was short,........
Saturday morning, we got up almost a little too early due to the curtains not doing a good job at blocking out the rising sun, but hey, better than sleeping in late LOL. So later that morning, we got ready to go to the local community rummage sale. Once we got there, there were so many people, mostly senior citizens, messing up the clothes and other items, that organizers huffily have to fold up and straighten out the clothes again. We looked through the clothes, and what bothered us the most is when the jeans are mixed together that alot of times, I have to make sure the jeans (with the inside tags) are for women or men. but even worse, alot of jeans have no inside tags so my husband and I have to spend a while, figuring out if this is for women or men and thinking, will this fit? Crazy.
We moved on to items, such as books, kitchenware, collectibles, etc. My 3-yr-old son was trying to figure out why a bunch of kids were surrounding a big box. Within minutes, he brought to my husband and I a little beetlebug car and a toy ambulance. I asked my son if he found anything for his 1-year-old brother and he dragged my husband to the big box. Unfortunately, there was nothing safe nor appealing to my youngest son, so we left it at that. Then there was a bake sale, held by a local school that my oldest son will attend in the fall of 2011 (if we live in this community longer,......) and there wasn't much selection at all. The parents that were helping out didn't look so friendly nor motivated. The prices of baked goods were a little higher than what I could normally portion out and calculate how much each ingredient would cost to make a yummy finished product. Oh well, I'll make my own Almond Roca squares ;)
While we were looking around, we get so many odd stares from senior citizens and we just don't know why. Even I see other young families attending the sale, the senior even stared at them, too. Made me wonder,"What, you never seen young people living in this community at all?" Oh well.
Now, you readers are going to be asking,"So what did you buy in the end?"
-A pair of jeans for my husband
-a hamburger patty maker (I am no good at making patties by hand :S )
-a set of 4 ice mugs (you place them in the freezer so the water in the mugs turns to ice and have cold, refreshing drinks)
-a beetlebug car and a toy ambulance
-two baseball caps, because my husband collects them
And the total of all of the items above came out to $2.50 :) And we were there for a half hour.
Later that day, my parents came out to our house for BBQ supper, and coincidentally, my mom was at a church rummage sale in our hometown that VERY same day. Mom found many more books for the boys in great condition (as well as books for herself and Dad) so she bought them at $2 dollars for 15 books. The books she bought for herself and Dad was The Far Side cartoon book ( a must-read otherwise there is no humor in life at all) and quite shockingly, a biography of Babe Ruth, told by himself to an author who wrote his book. The rest of the books for the boys, there is so much more to read at bedtime so that is good.
Until next time,.......................
We moved on to items, such as books, kitchenware, collectibles, etc. My 3-yr-old son was trying to figure out why a bunch of kids were surrounding a big box. Within minutes, he brought to my husband and I a little beetlebug car and a toy ambulance. I asked my son if he found anything for his 1-year-old brother and he dragged my husband to the big box. Unfortunately, there was nothing safe nor appealing to my youngest son, so we left it at that. Then there was a bake sale, held by a local school that my oldest son will attend in the fall of 2011 (if we live in this community longer,......) and there wasn't much selection at all. The parents that were helping out didn't look so friendly nor motivated. The prices of baked goods were a little higher than what I could normally portion out and calculate how much each ingredient would cost to make a yummy finished product. Oh well, I'll make my own Almond Roca squares ;)
While we were looking around, we get so many odd stares from senior citizens and we just don't know why. Even I see other young families attending the sale, the senior even stared at them, too. Made me wonder,"What, you never seen young people living in this community at all?" Oh well.
Now, you readers are going to be asking,"So what did you buy in the end?"
-A pair of jeans for my husband
-a hamburger patty maker (I am no good at making patties by hand :S )
-a set of 4 ice mugs (you place them in the freezer so the water in the mugs turns to ice and have cold, refreshing drinks)
-a beetlebug car and a toy ambulance
-two baseball caps, because my husband collects them
And the total of all of the items above came out to $2.50 :) And we were there for a half hour.
Later that day, my parents came out to our house for BBQ supper, and coincidentally, my mom was at a church rummage sale in our hometown that VERY same day. Mom found many more books for the boys in great condition (as well as books for herself and Dad) so she bought them at $2 dollars for 15 books. The books she bought for herself and Dad was The Far Side cartoon book ( a must-read otherwise there is no humor in life at all) and quite shockingly, a biography of Babe Ruth, told by himself to an author who wrote his book. The rest of the books for the boys, there is so much more to read at bedtime so that is good.
Until next time,.......................
Monday, April 19, 2010
The Season has begun,............
...................., and the garage sales have started already.
So why have I chose to blog about garage sales as well as yard sales, rummage sales and auction sales? For starters, it's about "everything old is new again". Or, it's about,"it's cheaper to buy things from garage sales than to pay full price at department stores". Or, it is simply,"You never know what you are going to find what you never expect to find in places". Okay, so there has to be millions of reasons to go garage sale-ing.
When I was growing up, my parents loved attending farm, residential and estate auction sales. There were so many things up for biddings, and and most of the bidders bidding outrageous prices were old farmers and senior citizens, who then would buy them, take them home and put them in places that would soon be forgotten. Crazy. On weekends in springs and summers, my mom would find out about garage sales so she and a friend would go and check out what the seller(s) have put out. She may say,"nothing's new" otherwise she would come home with Tupperware sets that were badly needed to store dry goods and leftovers. As I get older, churches started holding charity rummage sales, and it never occurred to me that the good things that I would have picked up could have been used years later when I had my first apartment (heh heh, imagine the paycheque from a crafts store would not cover a nice set of plates and cutlery from Walmart at all?) Then, garage sales were happening all over, so my friends and I would get in the car and drive all over the city to garage and yard sales. All over, I could find a set of pots and pans in very good condition that I could pay at 90% below department store prices (Sorry, Zellers and Walmart! ) and my friends would find junk treasures to decorate their apartments and townhouses with. When I took cooking classes, my classmate and I would not go home until we stopped at a Friday garage sale and she would find great toys to buy for her young daughters (her common-law husband would not be impressed at first, but was shocked that the girls kept themselves busy with different toys without annoying the parents at all). I do not think I would stop there in garage sale-ing at all.
When I met my husband, I went to his apartment, and I would find next-to-new items, such as table and chairs and furniture, as well as motorcycle ornaments and such, and he would tell me that he never shopped at fancy stores for them at all, because he jumps at chances in garage sales for deals. We just never stopped there at all. We did hold a few garage sales of our own to sell items we no longer have use for, and yes it did sell well. Even when we had to move from the small town to the city, we would write on the big poster "Moving Sale: Everything must GO!" Yup, almost all the items were sold. We even held another yard sale in the city after we moved, more unused items went, and that was better.
For us, I don't think we would ever give up on garage sale-ing at all. It is not just toys, dishes, clothes and knick-knacks we'll find, we would find gardening supplies we need, even storage shelves and book cases we will put them to use (better than disorganization) as well as vegetable and flower plants that people will sell (one lady in the city sold tomato and pepper plants as she planted them indoors and they grew successfully and realized she the has no room to place extras in her garden so she sold them, and that was okay since they were sold cheaper than at greenhouses). Even hanging baskets and large pots for yards and container gardening, hey, why not? Better to put them to use than to watch them put away in storage just to be forgotten.
Well, this weekend is the local community rummage sale at the rink, along with the bake sale that the school is holding so we'll be going there. Even my landlord and his girlfriend can't wait to go to auction sales every weekend.
Let the season of garage, yard and auction sales begin!
So why have I chose to blog about garage sales as well as yard sales, rummage sales and auction sales? For starters, it's about "everything old is new again". Or, it's about,"it's cheaper to buy things from garage sales than to pay full price at department stores". Or, it is simply,"You never know what you are going to find what you never expect to find in places". Okay, so there has to be millions of reasons to go garage sale-ing.
When I was growing up, my parents loved attending farm, residential and estate auction sales. There were so many things up for biddings, and and most of the bidders bidding outrageous prices were old farmers and senior citizens, who then would buy them, take them home and put them in places that would soon be forgotten. Crazy. On weekends in springs and summers, my mom would find out about garage sales so she and a friend would go and check out what the seller(s) have put out. She may say,"nothing's new" otherwise she would come home with Tupperware sets that were badly needed to store dry goods and leftovers. As I get older, churches started holding charity rummage sales, and it never occurred to me that the good things that I would have picked up could have been used years later when I had my first apartment (heh heh, imagine the paycheque from a crafts store would not cover a nice set of plates and cutlery from Walmart at all?) Then, garage sales were happening all over, so my friends and I would get in the car and drive all over the city to garage and yard sales. All over, I could find a set of pots and pans in very good condition that I could pay at 90% below department store prices (Sorry, Zellers and Walmart! ) and my friends would find junk treasures to decorate their apartments and townhouses with. When I took cooking classes, my classmate and I would not go home until we stopped at a Friday garage sale and she would find great toys to buy for her young daughters (her common-law husband would not be impressed at first, but was shocked that the girls kept themselves busy with different toys without annoying the parents at all). I do not think I would stop there in garage sale-ing at all.
When I met my husband, I went to his apartment, and I would find next-to-new items, such as table and chairs and furniture, as well as motorcycle ornaments and such, and he would tell me that he never shopped at fancy stores for them at all, because he jumps at chances in garage sales for deals. We just never stopped there at all. We did hold a few garage sales of our own to sell items we no longer have use for, and yes it did sell well. Even when we had to move from the small town to the city, we would write on the big poster "Moving Sale: Everything must GO!" Yup, almost all the items were sold. We even held another yard sale in the city after we moved, more unused items went, and that was better.
For us, I don't think we would ever give up on garage sale-ing at all. It is not just toys, dishes, clothes and knick-knacks we'll find, we would find gardening supplies we need, even storage shelves and book cases we will put them to use (better than disorganization) as well as vegetable and flower plants that people will sell (one lady in the city sold tomato and pepper plants as she planted them indoors and they grew successfully and realized she the has no room to place extras in her garden so she sold them, and that was okay since they were sold cheaper than at greenhouses). Even hanging baskets and large pots for yards and container gardening, hey, why not? Better to put them to use than to watch them put away in storage just to be forgotten.
Well, this weekend is the local community rummage sale at the rink, along with the bake sale that the school is holding so we'll be going there. Even my landlord and his girlfriend can't wait to go to auction sales every weekend.
Let the season of garage, yard and auction sales begin!
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